KNIFE AT SCHOOL
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports a deputy was sent to Winlock High School yesterday to take a report about an 18-year-old who allegedly pulled a knife during a dispute while playing football there the day before. The case is being referred for a requested charge of fourth-degree assault and possessing a dangerous weapon on school grounds, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
ELUDING POLICE
• A 38-year-old driver was arrested for attempting to elude after he drove away from a Chehalis police officer who stopped him at Stan Hedwall Park on Rice Road. Police say Justus J. Kohlenberg, who had a warrant for his arrest, got onto Interstate 5 and exited at Mellen Street in Centralia, where police cars boxed him in. Kohlenberg continued talking on his cell phone instead exiting his vehicle and officers broke a window to get him out, according to Deputy Police Chief Randy Kaut. Kohlenberg, who is listed as a transient and previously from Longview, was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
THEFT
• Centralia police were called yesterday about the theft of a license plate from a vehicle overnight on the 100 block of Jefferson Street. The missing plate reads B08322B, according to the Centralia Police Department.
OAKVILLE WRECK INJURES TWO
• Two occupants of an sport utility vehicle were hospitalized overnight after the SUV veered off U.S. Highway 12 in Oakville traveled down a ravine and ran into a tree. Kevin A. Albert, 36, of Oakville, had cuts to his head and was taken along with his passenger Jay A. McCall, 24, of Centralia, to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the Washington State Patrol. McCall had neck pain, the state patrol reported. Trooper called about 2:15 a.m. to the scene near Elma Gate Road concluded Albert was driving under the influence. The 2000 Cadillac Escalade was described as totaled.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter